Four charged after child sends e-mailed plea for rescue from abuse

WHEELERSBURG, Ohio, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Four people were charged with keeping children chained to their beds after one alleged victim emailed a plea for help, police in Ohio said Wednesday.

Three of the suspects were in custody, including the children's grandmother, Edwina Louis, 52, WSAZ-TV in Huntington, W. Va., reported. Investigators were seeking a fourth.

Scioto County deputies came to the home in Wheelersburg, a small town on the Ohio River southeast of Cincinnati, after a teacher at Ohio Virtual Academy received an e-mail from one of the children, WTTE-TV in Columbus, Ohio, said.

The two older children told investigators they were chained to their beds much of the time, freed only to do schoolwork on their computer. They said they were beaten and paddled and given little food.

All four children were taken to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, WTTE said.

Louis' daughter, Bobbi Sue Pack, 31, and Juan Sanchez, 44, were also arrested. Leah Dillon, 24, who was described as leaving the house quickly when child welfare workers arrived, is being sought.

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